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The Tuskegee Airmen / Flying Tigers
The Tuskegee airmen were the first African american fighter group in the air corps their job was to provide escorts for pilots on bombing missions. The Flying tigers also made an difference by flying supplies to china & engaging in combat with Japanese pilots when japan invaded china, before america declared war on japan for the attack of pearl harbor -
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Red cross
patriotic Americans also invested their time volunteering for organizations such as the red cross & collected books to be sent to troops celebrities also promoted it. they provided food hygiene products even entertainment. -
The axis powers
on September 27 americans were notified that geermany , italy and japan had signed a mutual defense treaty the tripartite pact. they were known as the axis powers their main goal was to keep the US out of the war -
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Allies
allies joined forces to stop Hitlers aggressive army [axis powers] at first it was only France, Poland and the united kingdom but later the US joined establishing the united nations Jan 1 1942 three leaders were Stalin church hill & FDR -
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volunteerism of ww2 & red cross of ww2
patriotic Americans invested their time volunteering for red cross making bandages knitting socks and collecting books to send to the war zone -
lend lease program
provided military aid to any country whos defense was vital to the security of the united states. the act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other war material -
Pearl harbor
The morning of this day Japanese boarded the island of Hawaii in 2 waves of airplanes. damaging/ destroying 1865 ships more than 260 airplanes and killed about 6000 people the day after Roosevelt declared war on japan -
War bonds
known as debt securities for the purpose of financing military operations during war time the bonds yield a mere 2.4 percent return after a 10 yr maturity living in the us -
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Rationing
united states wanted to ration restrictions on imported goods limitations on the transportation of goods do to shortages of rubber tires and of agricultural harvest to soldiers over seas contributed to the US gov -
WAVES
During ww2 waves was a acronym for woman accepted for volunteer emergency service WAVES let women work on planes and fly planes in the continental US -
WAC
MEMBERS of the women's army corps were the first women other than the nurses to serve within the united states army base they were able to supply the additional resources -
Douglas MacArthur
star general commanded the southwest pacific and invaded the island of the leyete to avenge Americans defeat in the Philippines he applied his military actions with island -
omar Bradley
he was a highly distinguished senior officer of the U.S. army who saw distinguished service in north Africa & western Europe during ww2 he was also known as top general during d day -
George Marshall
he was an american statesman and soldier he was chief of staff of the US army under president Roosevelt & Truman served as secretary of state defense -
Code talkers
the american military needed a undecipherable code to communicate that could not be broken by the Japanese the language is extremely complex -
George Patton
general George smith Patton Jr was a senior officer of the US army who commanded the US seventh ARMY in the Mediterranean and Europe -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Was the 34th president of the USA prior to his presidency Eisenhower was a life long military man commanding the D-day evasion while serving as supreme allied commander in Europe during ww2 -
Volunteerism of WW2
The victory corps was an american prog. during ww2 that provided training to male and females hs students focused on skills relevant to the war effort